HOTOL Britain's SSTO Spaceplane Landing

HOTOL, for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing, was a 1980s British design for a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane that was to be powered by an airbreathing jet engine. Development was being conducted by a consortium led by Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace (BAe).
The ideas behind HOTOL originated from work done by British Engineer Alan Bond in the field of pre-cooled jet engines.
Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable winged launch vehicle, HOTOL was to be fitted with a unique air-breathing engine, the RB545 or Swallow, that was under development by British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce. The propellant for the engine technically consisted of a combination of liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen; however, it was to employ a new means of dramatically reducing the amount of oxidizer needed to be carried on board by utilising atmospheric oxygen as the spacecraft climbed through the lower atmosphere. Since the oxidizer typically represents the majority of the takeoff weight of a rocket, HOTOL was to be considerably smaller than normal pure-rocket designs, roughly the size of a medium-haul airliner such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD-80.
The termination of development work on HOTOL led to the formation of Reaction Engines Limited (REL) to develop and produce Skylon, a proposed spacecraft based on HOTOL technologies, including its air-breathing engine.
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[@StaK_1980]

And of course it had to have the union jack for the drag chute! :-P
Nicely done animation!

[@mpetersen6]

Actually piloted by Bond. James Bond.

[@Nehpets1701G]

Nice rendition of London Gatwick you did there - recognised the local features straight away 👌

[@raye402]

The Concept was conceived by Barnes Wallis over 50yrs ago - his vision was London to Australia in 4 hrs 👏🇬🇧💯

[@galalzou4228]

Nice animation

[@VeraMullerova-xc9vs]

Je to nevyslovitelna krása co dokážeme 👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️

[@longtsun8286]

Well done.

[@CJFreeza]

Omg can't wait to see the full video!!!

[@gazratjackson]

The aerodynamics of a lawn dart 😅
Well done inglund

[@babalotta]

Beluga plane + space plane =

[@AlanDPhd]

Too much fuselage and not enough wing!

[@brucethompson7214]

My thoughts exactly. I doubt it could generate the lift needed.

[@kentoncompton3009]

Well it’s because it’s empty. The engines at the back would be roughly 5-10x the weight of the empty fuselage in front. Therefore the center of gravity would be heavily biased towards the aft end of the craft. Thus the center of lift, the wings, would need to be mostly centered towards the back as well.
If you had wings across the entire fuselage, it would cause the Center of Lift to be in front of the Center of Gravity , causing it to pitch up uncontrollably.

[@brucethompson7214]

@@kentoncompton3009 empty? Is this not a type of space plane? Pretty poor design if it was used only to take things into space but not bring things back? The space shuttle did.

[@kentoncompton3009]

@@brucethompson7214 yes but look at how much fuel it needed to reach space. This is an SSTO. It doesn’t need the massive fuel tank on its belly or SRBs to get into orbit. Thus the entire fuselage held fuel. Not a payload.

[@Alberich_Fafner]

Heatshield?

[@SebastianWellsTL]

Doesn't need one. It has the power of VFX on its side!

[@irinabrezeanu343]

❤❤🎉😮

[@davidvaughn7752]

If only...

[@larryhunter4410]

Very nice. How fast?

[@eddjordan2399]

wish theyd get on and build it only been 60 years.

[@pseudotasuki]

Its successor, Skylon, is supposedly still in development.

[@Jac723]

At least now the animation is better so we can just pretend......🤔

[@Brunonito2212]

you are creating best animations hmm im first

[@josephgraham1636]

cgi is getting better

[@tsr207]

HOTOL was a marvellous project -with the genius of Sir Alan Bond's concept of an air breathing SSTO Lack of interest from ESA killed the project and we still have to fly in ugly capsules that look like electrical plugs !

[@tarachand8616]

It doesn’t have a tail wing, how can it turn like that? 😂

[@David-yo5ws]

Front vertical wing. It is hard to see.

[@tarachand8616]

@@David-yo5ws its visible actually 😂

[@Ban00]

Nice AI

[@user-gg7ps6fr6m]

Что это?

[@sfs_lead]

Runway too short!

[@williamstarkey9032]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@IanAnthonyMartin]

An SSTO for an undercarriage!

[@user-rb3hp9qz4f]

Дирижбамбель воздухом на бздетый😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@ShoaibShah-we4kv]

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